Ben Whaley- LiveLessons – Linux Web Operations

Linux Web Operations LiveLessons guides system administrators, developers, and other Linux professionals through the layers of technology underlying modern web applications. The videos discuss the relationship between web and application servers, load balancers, and databases and introduce configuration management, monitoring, containers, cryptography, and DNS.

Description
In Linux Web Operations LiveLessons, Ben Whaley covers the architecture underlying a modern web stack. Based upon a simple example Python web application hosted in the AWS cloud, each lesson begins with general principles and uses command line examples to reinforce the concepts. Since the web is composed of a huge array of languages and platforms, the tutorials teach the viewer how to think about designing web applications for scalability more than deeply understanding a single technology. The videos cover web, application, and database servers; DNS records and servers; exchanging confidential and authenticated messages using cryptography; Ansible for orchestration and configuration management; working with APIs; and running applications in Docker containers.

About the Instructor
Ben Whaley is the coauthor of the UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, widely considered the de facto standard system administration text, and author of the highly regarded Linux System Administration LiveLessons. He has been running applications on the web for more than a decade and recently built the cloud-based back-end web systems for Apigee, a software-as-a-service API management platform, and for Anki, a robotics and artificial intelligence company. Ben is a consultant in the San Francisco Bay area.